de Mori, Bernd Brabec. "Rituals." In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia, edited by William F. Thompson, 966-969. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781452283012.n333.

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Ritual is a term used to describe an action or a series of actions that are fixed and symbolically loaded according to a given context within a particular community. Ritual is a metalinguistic term: it does not define an object or ...

de Mori, Bernd Brabec. "Rituals." In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia, edited by William F. Thompson, 966-969. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781452283012.n333.